Strategic Project Lead (Speech & Audio AI)

Location: Remote, United States

Company

hirify.global supports the development of frontier AI through high-quality data programs for leading AI companies.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery across project scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and risks.
• Manage client communication, status updates, workshops, and escalations.
• Translate client requirements into annotation guidelines, workflows, tooling, and quality standards.
• Define and monitor quality metrics including transcription accuracy, word error rate (WER), diarization, and linguistic consistency.
• Troubleshoot quality issues, resolve ambiguous requirements, and advise on speech and audio workflow feasibility, evaluation methods, and tooling.
• Build reusable guidelines, SOPs, and QA frameworks; mentor Operations Specialists and support project scoping, pilots, and capability development.

Requirements

• 1–2+ years of experience in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery, ideally in a GenAI or frontier AI environment.
• Hands-on familiarity with at least one speech, audio, language, or conversational AI workflow.
• Experience coordinating projects or workstreams, managing stakeholders, and communicating with clients.
• Understanding of data quality, annotation workflows, and quality assurance methods.
• Ability to turn client requirements into clear guidelines, workflows, and quality standards.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Interest in current AI developments and the evolution of speech, audio, and voice-agent technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience with ASR transcription, speaker diarization, acoustic annotation, or TTS evaluation.
• Familiarity with voice-agent scripts, IVR, dialogue design, turn-taking, or conversational evaluation.
• Experience with localization, cross-locale consistency, CJK languages, or low-resource languages.
• Bilingual or multilingual capabilities, particularly German or a Nordic language.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with flexibility to deliver in a way that works for the role and team.
• Culture focused on innovation, collaboration, excellence, curiosity, accountability, and humility.
• Work on complex AI challenges across industries and geographies.
• Access to tools, resources, and development opportunities to build capability over time.